Crisis at Christmas OR Love is the Key
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For many readers, it will not be a very happy Christmas Day this year, and for most of us it will be a Christmas break like no other for all the wrong reasons. Even so, there are vaccines on the way so still reason to think positive and look forward to better times in 2021.
Here's my favourite ghosts (from happier times) and I wishing you all love and peace always, and many thanks for dropping by the blog.
Hugs,
Roger
CRISIS AT CHRISTMAS or LOVE IS THE KEY
Christmas,
in a year
with
many a tear in many an eye
for a year that’s seen
so
much grief, anger and pain,
yet,
also a sense
of
being a common humanity
in
a world inclined
to
view certain differences as weaknesses,
due
to its own short sightedness
In
a year that has seen
the
devastating effects of Covid-19
on
world economies
and
personal lives, a sense of unity
attempts
to rise
above
that grief, anger and pain
all
but dominating
everyday
life, whoever and wherever we are,
any differences notwithstanding
In
times of crisis, people
will
often pull together, bridging chasms
between
old enemies,
suggesting
bigots have second thoughts
asking
of religions
that
they practise what they preach
in
so far as matching
deeds
to fine words, embracing peace and love
without
either caveat or favour
For
many, Christmas,
among
other celebrations, but reinforce
an
overwhelming
sense
of loss, regret, loneliness, and losing out
in
such everyday move
as
humanity makes, potentially this way,
potentially
that…
now,
raising hopes, now (invariably) taking credit
for
(inevitably) losing out to ‘Fate’
So,
what can we do,
who
are left to pick ourselves up, start over?
For
a start, never forget
there
are such people in the world who care
about
others,
will
lend a helping hand and see us through
to
a kinder end,
while
it’s a positive mindset (no weakness) that asks
for
help, more likely to find happiness
There
will always be
the
good-bad in this world, the happy-sad too;
we
can but try
to
rise above it all (down to me, down to you)
even
compensate
for
such evils as humankind may yet do,
let
love be the key
to mind-body-spirit left free to live, let live and let die
if
(still) begging the question, "why…?"
[Note: this post-poem also appears on my gay-interest poetry blog today.] RT
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